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J.H. PLATT. GRADUATE OR MEASURE.

` No. 547,862. Patented Oct. 15, 1895.

UNITED gramas JARvIs H; PLATT, or cI-IIcAco, ILLINOIS.

GRADUATE ,ou MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent YNo. 547,862, dated October 15, 1895.

' Appnmitnneaanuaryzt.1895. senti No. 536,145. (Nomaden) To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JARVIS H. PLATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Graduates or Measures; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to that type of hand appliances by means of which medicines or other fluids are graduated or measured from a bottle or other like holder in a ready and accurate manner as required; and the present improvement has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and efficient device for such uses, and in which are embodied the following advantageous features: a measuring device without any moving parts and of a single-piece construction, a convenient construction whereby medicines can be given to young persons while asleep and which for use in extreme cases is adapted to receive a rubber bulb for use in forcibly expelling the medicine, &c., in a gradual manner out from the measuring -chamber into the mouth or throat of such person. I attain such objects by the construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved graduate or measure, showing the same applied to a druggists bottle and in a measuring position; Fig. 2, a similar view of the same in a pouring or discharging position; Fig. 3, a similar view of the same in a discharging position with a rubber bulb attached for aiding in the expulsion of the measuringchambers contents.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a measuring-chamber of any usual and suitable form, preferably of a bulb shape, as shown; 2, an inlet-neck connecting at one side of the bulb l and providedwith a tapering rubber cork 3 or other usual means of attachment, by means of which it can be connected to a bottle or other holder 4 or to a liexible bulb 5, of rubber or other suitable material, when a positive means for evacuatin g the measuringchamber is required.

6 is an outlet-neck connected to the side of the measuring bulb or chamber I at a side adjacent to that at which the inlet-neck 2 is connected, so that the openings of said necks into the interior of the measuring-bulb will be substantially at right angles to each other, the construction being such that one or the other of such openings will be above the liquidlevel in either the lling or. emptying positions of the measuring-chamber. The outletneck is adapted to receive a nursing-nipple 7 when such an exit means is indicated for the delivery of the contents of the measuringchamber. v

For medicinal and like household use it is preferable to construct the present measure or graduate from white glass and to graduate the outside with a suitable scale or gage 8 to indicate various quantities therein.

The present invention aords an absolutely safe and accurate means by which medicine can be quickly and conveniently graduated or measured out from a druggists bottle and given to patients without raising their heads from the pillow, and with which the most nervous patients can measure out their own dose, either by half-tea-spoonful, tea-spoonful, table-spoont'ul, or less, and by no possible chance can they get an overdose.

The present device is adapted for attachment to any size bottle and is so constructed that it may be tightly corked. It does away with the necessity of aspoon and the possible annoyance of spilling on clothing or bedclothes, and in addition affords an excellent arrangement for taking medicine that might discolor or injure the teeth. In use the desired quantity will be allowed to dow into the graduated measuring vessel or bulb l and can remain there corked securely from the air until it is desired to use or take the same.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A graduate or measure, without movingk parts, comprising, a measuring bulb or chamber, having inlet and outlet necks, that are connected tothe sides, of the chamber, in manner substantially as herein described, so that the graduate or measure is adapted to fill or empty itself by changes in lits positiomsubstantially as set forth.

2. A graduate or measure, without moving parts, comprising, a measuring bulb or chamber, having inlet and outlet necks, that are connected to the sides, of `the chamber, in

manner substantially as herein described, so that the graduate or measure is adapted to fill or empty itself by changes in its position, the inlet neck being adapted for attachment to a bottle or holder, or to a flexible expelling bulb, substantially as set forth.

3. A graduate or measure, Without moving parts, comprising, a measuring bulb or chamber, having inlet and outlet necks, that are connected to the sides of the chamber, in mam ner substantially as herein described, s0 that the graduate or measure is adapted to fill or 2o empty itself by changes in its position, the insubstantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, this 21st day of January, 1895.

`JARVIS H. PLATT. `In presence of- FRED W. Hennen, GEO.. Il. ARTHUR. 

